Dr. Robin Lorenz is the Senior Director of Research Pathology at Genentech. Dr. Lorenz got her MD-PhD from Washington University in St. Louis where she also received her residency training in clinical pathology. She later moved to the University of Alabama where she served as the Director of the MD-PhD program and physician scientist development office, and received her master’s degree in healthcare quality and safety, before moving to Genentech. Credits: This episode sponsored by an American So...
Sep 22, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 2
That’s Dr. John Lowe, today on Behind the microscope. Dr. John Lowe, MD, is the retired Senior Director of Pathology at Genentech inc. Dr. Lowe got his MD from the University of Utah, went to residency at Washington University in St. Louis, was an HHMI investigator at the University of Michigan, chair of pathology at case western reserve University and ultimately the Senior director of pathology at Genentech before his retirement in 2018. Credits: This episode sponsored by an American Society fo...
Sep 08, 2020•46 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Dr. Alberto Espay is a Professor of Neurology and the Director of the James J. and Joan A. Gardner Family Center for Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorder. Dr. Espay got his MD from the Central University of Venezuala, received his residency training at Indiana University, and fellowship at the University of Toronto. He is also the author of the book “Brain Fables: The Hidden History of Neurodegenerative Diseases and a Blueprint to Conquer Them” released just this month in the United States....
Aug 24, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Dr. Luisa Cervantes-Barragan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Emory University. Dr. Cervantes-Barragan got her PhD and did a postdoctoral fellowship at Kantonsspital St.Gallen. She then did a postdoc at Washington University in St Louis before joining the faculty at Emory. Today, she shares with us her path to academic research, and her incredible passion for discovery. Credits: Our thanks to Dr. Cervantes-Barragan for being on the show. Dr. Cervantes...
Aug 05, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Dr. Ruth Gotian is the Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy and Assistant Dean for Mentoring at Weill Cornell Medical College. She has spent more than 25 years involved in physician and physician scientist education at Weill Cornell and was the administrative director of the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD program. Dr. Gotian received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and her Ed. D from Columbia University. Today, Dr. Gotian shares some of h...
Jul 28, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Dr. Curtis Henry is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University. Dr. Henry received his BS from Florida A&M, his PhD from Wake Forest University, and did a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus before joining the faculty at Emory University in the Department of Pediatrics. He was also recently featured in a cell press article highlighting 100 inspiring black scientists in America. Today, Dr. Henry shares his journey, his ...
Jul 20, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Dr. Pearl Ryder is a post-doctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Dorothy Lerit at Emory University. Dr. Ryder received her BA from the University of Chicago and her MD-PhD from Emory University. Today, Dr. Ryder shares with us her journey to finding her passion in research and her perspective on MD-PhD training and the role of physician scientists. Credits: Our thanks to Dr. Ryder for being on the podcast. Follow Dr. Ryder on twitter: @pearl_ryder Host: Bejan Saeedi Co-Host and Audio Engineer – Joe B...
Jul 14, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Dr. Daniel Moore: The final installment of our 5 Part feature on Vanderbilt University. Dr. Moore is an assistant professor of pediatrics and the director of Vanderbilt’s Pediatrician Physician Scientist Training Program. Dr. Moore received his Bachelor’s degree from Harvard, his MD-PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and then went to Vanderbilt to complete a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in Pediatric endocrinology. Today, Dr. Moore shares his story, his experience in training an...
Jun 29, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Dr. Christine Lovly: Episode 4 of our 5 Part feature on Vanderbilt University. Dr. Lovly is an Associate Professor of Medicine, co-leader of the translational research and interventional oncology research program, and an alumnus of the Vanderbilt PSTP. Dr. Lovly received her BA from Johns Hopkins, and her MD-PhD from Washington University in St. Louis before coming to Vanderbilt. Today, Dr. Lovly shares with us her path to this unique career, her experiences within the Vanderbilt PSTP, and her p...
Jun 22, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Today we catch up with our colleague and friend, Victoria (Vicky) Avanzato, a 5th year MD/DPhil student in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) MD/PhD Partnership Training Program. Vicky discusses her unique physician-scientist education which consists of medical school training at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia), and graduate school training at the University of Oxford (U.K.) and the National Institutes of Health's Rocky Mountain Labs (Hamilton, Montana) as part of the NIH Oxford-Cambrid...
Jun 15, 2020•26 min
Dr. James Madara is the CEO and executive Vice-President of the American Medical Association. Dr. Madara began his career at Harvard, where he spent 22 years, later becoming the Chair of Pathology at Emory University, then the Dean of the Medical School and CEO of Hospitals at the University of Chicago, before joining the leadership at the AMA. Dr. Madara discusses his life, his views on leadership, and his legacy. Link to Dr. Madara’s bio: https://www.ama-assn.org/news-leadership-viewpoints/aut...
May 26, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Today we chat with Faith Anderson, a 1st year PhD student at the University of Michigan, and her PI – Dr. Teresa O’Meara, about their experiences as researchers in the time of COVID19. Follow our guests on Twitter: Faith Anderson: @microbialfaith Dr. O'Meara: @teresa_omeara More info on the O'Meara Lab: https://omeara.lab.medicine.umich.edu/home We also want to hear from you! Please reach out by emailing us at behindthemicroscope@gmail.com, on our webpage www.behindthemicroscope.com, or via soci...
May 18, 2020•29 min
Dr. Patrick Hu: Episode 3 of our 5 Part feature on Vanderbilt University. Dr. Hu received his MD-PhD from NYU and is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Physician Scientist Training Program (PSTP) at Vanderbilt University. Today, we discuss the structure and vision of the Vanderbilt PSTP, as well as Dr. Hu’s own career trajectory, the importance of mentorship, and the emerging role of preprint servers in modern research. Stay tuned after the credits for some bonu...
May 04, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Today we continue our quarantine series with a conversation with our friend and colleague Emma D’Agostino, a 4th year PhD student in the Biochemistry, Cell, and Developmental Biology program at Emory. We discuss life in lockdown, the toll of social distancing on the research enterprise, and her new science communication blog. Find her blog at: https://ehdagostino.wordpress.com/blog-3/ Find her on Twitter @emmuhdag Credits: This episode sponsored by an American Society for Cell Biology COMPASS Ou...
Apr 29, 2020•30 min
Chris Peek is an MD-PhD Student at Vanderbilt University. We caught up with him in January on the Vanderbilt campus and asked him about his experiences in the MSTP and his goals for his training and career. In the second half of this episode, we talk to him in mid-April after coronavirus had thrown a wrench in graduate and medical education and discuss how life has changed while we all shelter at home. Credits: Our thanks to Chris Peek for joining us! Host: Bejan Saeedi Co-Host and Audio Enginee...
Apr 20, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Today we check in with some of our colleagues and friends at Emory University to see how they are coping with the research slow down, stay at home order, and postponement of clinical clerkships. We also want to hear from you! Please reach out by emailing us at behindthemicroscope@gmail.com, on our webpage www.behindthemicroscope.com, or via social media. Stay safe! This episode sponsored by an American Society for Cell Biology COMPASS Outreach Grant! More about ASCB COMPASS here: https://www.asc...
Apr 14, 2020•50 min
Dr. Chris Williams: Episode 1 of our 5 Part feature on Vanderbilt University. Dr. Williams is a Professor of Medicine and Cancer biology in the division of gastroenterology, an associate dean of physician scientist education and training, an associate director of the physician scientist training program, and the current director of the MD-PhD program. He received his MD-PhD from Vanderbilt and stayed on for residency in internal medicine and fellowship in GI. In this episode, Dr. Williams breaks...
Apr 06, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 12
A quick update on the plans for Behind the Microscope going forward. Please let us know how you are doing at behindthemicroscope.com , reach out via social media, or send us an email at behindthemicroscope@gmail.com. Stay safe!
Mar 31, 2020•3 min
Dr. Machelle Pardue is a Research Career Scientist at the Atlanta VA Medical Center and a Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Zoology from the University of Wyoming, her PhD in Vision Science and Biology from the University of Waterloo, and her post-doctoral training at Loyola School of Medicine and Hines VA Hospital. She then came to the Atlanta VA Medical Center and joined faculty at Emory and later Geo...
Mar 02, 2020•54 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Dr. Karl Saxe is the Director of the Cancer Cell Biology and Metastasis program at the American Cancer Society. He got his PhD in genetics from the University of Arizona, then received postdoctoral training at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of California at San Diego, before joining the staff at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Saxe then joined the faculty at Emory University, where he worked from 1990 until 2007, before becoming the director of the Cancer Cell Biology and...
Feb 17, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Dr. Bob Taylor is a Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, the Marcus Chair in Vascular Medicine, and the Director of the Division of Cardiology at Emory University. He received his PhD from Johns Hopkins and his MD from Harvard where he also did his internal medicine residency before coming to Emory as a Cardiology Fellow. He shares with us his circuitous journey to becoming a physician scientist, the structures in place to help people like him achieve their goals in academics, and w...
Feb 03, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Dr. Jen Heemstra is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Emory University. She received her Bachelor’s degree from UC Irvine and her PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne. After her post-doctoral training, she took a position at the University of Utah before ultimately moving to Emory University in 2017. In this episode, Dr. Heemstra shares with us her journey and defining her “win:” helping those around her achieve their full potential. Credits: Our thanks to ...
Jan 21, 2020•59 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Mary Horton is a former Co-Director of the Emory MSTP and current Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and Professional Development at Laney Graduate School at Emory. Over the years, Mary played a huge role in the Emory MD/PhD program, from setting the culture, to recruiting applicants, to managing the MSTP grant, in addition to guiding each and every student along this long and often fraught training path. Today she shares with us her story and her perspective after 20 years in the MD/PhD world. C...
Jan 06, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 7
In this episode, we take a look back at some of our favorite moments from the 2019 season. Our thanks to all of our listeners for supporting this podcast in its early days, and of course thanks to Anita Corbett, Brian Robinson, Sean Stowell, Stefi Barbian, and Steven Sloan for being on the show. Stick around until the end of the episode for a preview of some of our upcoming guests. Happy New Year and see you in 2020!
Jan 01, 2020•8 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Dr. Steven Sloan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics at Emory University. He received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Miami before attending Stanford to pursue his MD/PhD. In our conversation, Dr. Sloan shares with us his story of discovering research and medicine and the highs and lows he experienced along the way. We also talk extensively about the importance of mentorship and some of the lessons he learned from his PhD mentor Dr. Ben Barres and how he is carry...
Dec 16, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Dr. Stefi Barbian is a third year neonatology fellow at Emory University. She received her MD from Michigan State and went on to do a pediatric residency at Carolinas medical center in Charlotte, North Carolina before joining the fellowship program at Emory. Before fellowship, Dr. Barbian had not had significant experience at the bench since undergrad, and really pursued opportunities in wet lab research during her fellowship training. She shares with us her journey from medical school, to findi...
Nov 25, 2019•29 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Dr. Sean Stowell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology at Emory University. He attended Emory for his MD-PhD degree, where he worked in the lab of Dr. Rick Cummings. He stayed at Emory for his residency in pathology, and is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology. He discusses his career path and the things he has learned about starting a lab, managing funding, and balancing clinic, research, and family. Credits: Our thanks to Dr. Stowell for taking the time ...
Nov 11, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Dr. Brian Robinson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at Emory University. He graduated from the Emory MSTP program in 2013 and has gone on to complete a residency in anatomic pathology and a fellowship in GI pathology. He was just recently promoted from Instructor to Assistant Professor and is actively setting up his research program. We talk about career trajectory, finding what’s important to you, work/life/family balance, and some of the unique challenges of the MD-PhD ...
Oct 28, 2019•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 2
Dr. Anita Corbett is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Emory University. In 2018 she won the Nature Award for Mentoring in Science. She talks to us about her experiences mentoring students, building a team dynamic in the lab, and resolving conflict between lab members. We also talk at length about grant writing and how to teach it in a formalized way. Some of the papers we discussed are linked below: Mentorship Award and Profile: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00039-7 Artic...
Oct 15, 2019•47 min•Season 1Ep. 1
A round table discussion with some of the behind the scenes folks here at Behind the Microscope: Joe Behnke, Carey Jansen, and Michael Sayegh. We discuss the primary motivations for starting this podcast and our goals for it as we move forward.
Oct 11, 2019•12 min
